Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple; 26 April 1927 – 20 February 2007) was an English
actor
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who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in ''
Z-Cars
''Z-Cars'' or ''Z Cars'' (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police and CID detectives in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by ...
'' from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress
Dame Dorothy Tutin.
Early life
Waring was born in
Mill Hill
Mill Hill is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is situated around northwest of Charing Cross, close to the Hertfordshire border. It was in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Middlesex until 1965, when it b ...
,
London
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in 1927;
his father was the TV pioneer
Wing Commander
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Wing commander is immediately se ...
H.J. Barton-Chapple, who had worked with
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical Mechanical television, television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the fi ...
.
Waring's brother
Richard
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was a television comedy scriptwriter.
After attending
Dulwich College
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, Waring served with the
army
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in
Berlin
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.
He later turned down the offer of a place at
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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to take up a scholarship with the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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and then went into
rep theatre.
Waring's first television role was in a 1956 episode of ''
The Jack Benny Program
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me''. After that he appeared in many television programmes in small roles, including ''
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'', ''
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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'', ''
Ivanhoe
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'', ''
Dixon of Dock Green
''Dixon of Dock Green'' is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 1955 ...
'', ''
Ghost Squad'' and ''
Callan''.
[ He played Louis in episode 28 of '' The Adventures of William Tell'', "The Avenger" (1959). In 1964, Waring married Dorothy Tutin; the couple had two children, Amanda and Nick, both of whom later became actors.]
Television success
In 1969, Waring started playing DI Neil Goss in the police drama ''Z-Cars
''Z-Cars'' or ''Z Cars'' (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police and CID detectives in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by ...
'' and continued in this role for 215 episodes until 1973. Following ''Z-Cars'' he played Roland Moody in '' Moody and Pegg''. Later in the 1970s, Waring appeared in programmes such as ''Murder Most English'', ''Crown Court
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'', '' The New Avengers'', '' Two's Company'' and '' George and Mildred''. In 1987, he played Harry Somers in the Scottish soap opera ''Take the High Road
''Take the High Road'' (renamed ''High Road'' from 1994 to 2003) was a Scottish soap opera produced by Scottish Television, which started in February 1980 as an ITV (TV network), ITV daytime programme, and was broadcast until 2003. It was set in ...
''. During the 1980s he appeared on-screen in ''The Enigma Files
''The Enigma Files'' is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
Plot summary
The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from re ...
'', '' Never the Twain'' and '' The Professionals''. In 1982, he appeared as Shardovan in the third and fourth parts of the ''Doctor Who
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'' serial " Castrovalva" .
Waring was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and opens around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, Stratf ...
and appeared in many productions including ''War of the Roses
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''. In the West End he appeared in '' Cowardy Custard'', '' Suzie Wong'' and in the late 1980s '' The Boy Friend'', which was his final West End appearance. On Broadway he played Prince Albert
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*Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861), consort of Queen Victoria
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in '' Portrait of a Queen'' opposite his wife who played Queen Victoria
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.
Later life
In 1987, Waring appeared in the film ''Indian Summer''. His last television role was playing Mr. Cooper-Bassett in a 1995 episode of ''Keeping Up Appearances
''Keeping Up Appearances'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle-class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket ( Patricia Ro ...
''.[ He had married the actress Dorothy Tutin at the end of 1963. The couple's two children were born in 1964 and 1966. After his wife's death in 2001, Waring concentrated on radio work.] Waring died from cancer
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at Petworth Cottage Hospital in West Sussex
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in 2007, aged 79.
References
External links
*
Obituary in ''The Independent''
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1927 births
2007 deaths
Deaths from cancer in England
English male film actors
English male stage actors
English male television actors
People educated at Dulwich College
Royal Shakespeare Company members
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Actors from the London Borough of Barnet
20th-century British Army personnel
People from Mill Hill